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Joe Versus the Volcano

An average Joe. An adventurous comedy.

5.8(610)19901h 42m7

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

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Status
Released
Budget
$25M
Box office
$39.4M
Language
English
  • escape
  • terminal illness
  • orange soda
  • barefoot female

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG-139 Mar 1990
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPG6 Jul 1990
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalPG7 Jul 1990
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical10 Aug 1990
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical27 Jun 1990
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical626 Jul 1990
  • JapanJP

    • PhysicalG1 Nov 1991
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/123 Aug 1990
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical10 Aug 1990
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical3 Aug 1990
  • XCXC

    • Physical1 Mar 1992

Frequently asked questions

Joe Versus the Volcano was released on 9 March 1990.

Audience reviews

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    Wuchak

    6/26/2022

    5/10

    **_Good message, decent movie, albeit really odd_** That pretty much sums up this 1990 film starring Tom Hanks as a miserable man stuck in an uninspiring job. After learning he's going to die in six months, he accepts an offer to live it up for a couple of weeks and sacrifice himself in a volcano on some nondescript Pacific island. Right off the bat, the movie tips off that it's more fantasy than reality. There…

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    GenerationofSwine

    1/12/2023

    10/10

    Bare with me here, because things are hazy. I distinctly remember renting this at our old small town independent pre-Block Buster video rental establishment. Back when it stopped selling porn (for a few years) and devoted the back room to Betamax and Laser Disc before they moved on to a bigger building. I remember riding my bike there with my father when I was ten. I remember seeing the poster in one of the two…

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    kevin2019

    10/31/2025

    8/10

    "Joe Versus the Volcano" is a most off-beat and unusual film, but the central message it advocates is a common one. Life is worth living and this is never more relevant and meaningful than when life is slowly ebbing away and coming to an end and perhaps the circumstances leading up to that final terminal breath allows for a period of reflection. How awful would it be if all you were to see is a succession of missed o…

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